Seventh Day Slumber

From its indie beginnings at the tip of the 2000's to debuting on BEC Recordings in 2005, Seventh Day Slumber has continuously raised the bar of alternative rock excellence coupled with an unabashed gospel message. It's a tightly wound dynamic that's not only seen the band's last two albums land on the Billboard Heatseekers charts (at #10 and #6 respectively), plus a string of Top 10 singles (including the smashes "Caroline" and "Oceans From the Rain"), but it's also quite literally saved lives. As the group prepares to release the worshipful Take Everything, the story of front man Joseph Rojas' delivery from depression and a $400 per day cocaine addiction has already been well circulated.
Joseph Rojas tried to commit suicide following a cocaine binge, and became a Christian while being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The band formed in 1996 and were later signed to BEC Recordings. He teamed with guitarist Evan Weatherford, bassist Joshua Schwartz and drummer Adam Witte. After signing to the Afinia label the group issued Matthew Twenty-Five three years later. Their second album Freedom From Human Regulations was also released on an independent album before they made their major-label debut with Picking Up the Pieces in 2003.
The band's name Seventh Day Slumber comes from Genesis 2:2 where on the seventh day, after creating the universe, God rested.
Seventh Day Slumber's lyrics mostly focus on issues such as suicide, drugs and home abuse. For example the meaning for the album "Finally Awake" was quoted by the band as "The message of this album is clear. We want to empower kids to stop looking to the media, to what the world tells them they have to be, to find identity. You don't have to be what everyone else tells you to be or even what we think you should be."